Hot Coffee

I love going to class, wow. (Except I wish I could say the same about the ESPM class I settled into taking.) I leave pretty much every lecture satisfied that I learned new stuff about the field God continues to excite me about, and/or being seriously thought-provoked with thoughts that I do believe the Spirit is guiding me in contextualizing to the kingdom. To me, this University of California is the most fertile place I’ve yet encountered, in which I can experience secular knowledge/thought in conjunction with, and by the Spirit, in the context of what it means for God’s kingdom - and justice and kindness and love and shalom (yep, I said shalom like a true InterVarsity child) - to be ushered into society by the Church.

Watching “Hot Coffee” in LS184 today sparked more of that. Every time I watch or learn about different facets of our elite-manipulated system, I become more confident that I couldn’t possibly work with anything else. Or maybe I could, but I’d not like to. And I’m contemplating the thought that it’s not always about polarizing people - poor victim and elite corporation. Though the general picture is vivid and clear that the racially, socioeconomically, health-fully(?), general circumstantially inferior person will see that it is extremely difficult to fight through the system and win, I don’t know if demonizing the rich & powerful satisfies me. In doing that, I suck myself into a zoomed in, humanitarian posture that looks at the situation from the perspective of man.

I need kingdom eyes. And with kingdom eyes, I see systematic screwing-over-poor-people as so much more of just a human condition, not a condition induced by white collared villains. What I am just beginning to see, our Father has seen all along. And I realize that his mercy and compassion over us has been wow, so great.

Thursday Sep 9 @ 05:52pm
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